Takes a Ghost (www.ghost.org) json datafile and fills the folder with markdown posts.

get_ghost_articles.py

"""Takes a Ghost json datafile and fills the folder with markdown posts.
It does not import the tags (yet)."""
import json

AUTHOR = "My Name"
GHOST_DATAFILE = "ghostData.json"
ARTICLE_FOLDER = "" # An empty string corresponds to the script folder

def slugify(value):
    """
    Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
    and converts spaces to hyphens.
    """
    import unicodedata
    import re
    value = str(unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore'), "utf8")
    value = re.sub('[^\w\s-]', '', value).strip().lower()
    return re.sub('[-\s]+', '-', value)

def prepare_post(jpost):
    """Takes the post data dictionary and generates a markdown post for pelican"""
    meta = """Id: {4},
Title: {0}
Date: {1}
Modified: {2}
Tags:
Category: Blog
Slug: {3}
Authors: {4}""".format(jpost['title'],
                       jpost['published_at'],
                       jpost['updated_at'],
                       jpost['slug'],
                       jpost['id'],
                       AUTHOR)

    meta = '\n'.join([meta, "Status: draft"]) if jpost['status'] != 'published' else meta
    content = jpost['markdown'].replace('" target="_blank','')
    return ("{0:02d}-{1}".format(jpost['id'], slugify(jpost['title'])), '\n\n'.join([meta, content]))

def save_post(ppost):
    """Saves the markdown post to a file"""
    with open(ARTICLE_FOLDER + ppost[0] + ".md", "w") as f:
        f.write(ppost[1])
    print(ppost[0], "written!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    with open(GHOST_DATAFILE) as f:
        data = f.read()

    json_data = json.loads(data)
    posts = json_data['db'][0]['data']['posts']

    [save_post(prepare_post(post)) for post in posts]